In 2011, the NGA team helped Alice Jolly and her husband to complete their family through US surrogacy after an incredibly difficult journey of repeated miscarriages and stillbirth. Alice is a novelist and playwright (and author of soon-to-be published novel Dead...
Natalie was delighted to be part of a half hour special feature on BBC Radio 4 about the different ways same-sex couples are choosing to have children - and the legal issues. Radio 4 describes the programme as follows: Mary Smeeth, herself a mother of 2 boys brought...
We have been busy over the last few weeks speaking to the media about the baby Gammy case and why surrogacy law needs to be brought up to date. Amidst a storm of media discussion about the law and ethics of international surrogacy, we were interviewed by the...
The Telegraph has today reported the case of NGA clients Viral and Tulsi Patel, whose son was born through surrogacy in India but who has still - months after his birth - not been issued with a British passport to be able to come home. Natalie Gamble, the...
Natalie has written a comment piece in this week's Bionews appealing to the government to make sure that the proposed new regulations introducing a form of maternity leave for parents through surrogacy effectively include parents who have children born through...
In its latest published international surrogacy decision, the High Court has awarded a British-French couple living in France a parental order in respect of their son born through international surrogacy. The case makes clear that you don’t need to live in the UK to...
A three year old boy born through surrogacy has been left in legal limbo after his parents separated without getting a parental order. The boy had been born through a UK surrogacy arrangement involving the intended mother’s friend. She offered to act as a surrogate...
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has today published updated guidance for parents planning international surrogacy arrangements. We have been working with the FCO on this new guidance as part of our campaigning and policy work and are proud to have helped with...
It has been a busy few months for our whole team speaking at events and seminars across the UK and abroad. AAARTA (the American Academy of Assisted Reproduction Attorneys) hosted a conference on assisted reproduction law in Charleston, USA on 10-12 November, bringing...
In a High Court decision published last week Mrs Justice Theis warned intended parents of the importance of ensuring appropriate legal advice is obtained in the particular foreign destination, as well as at home. This reflects the reality that there is no...